US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on June 10 for "Development and parameter assessment for vertically aligned platinum wire aptasensor arrays for impedimetric detection of cardiac biomarkers" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,444, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Development and parameter assessment for vertically aligned platinum wire aptasensor arrays for impedimetric detection of cardiac biomarkers" was invented by Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh) and Mitali Patil (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to ex-situ biosensors that impedimetrically detect cardiac biomarkers of interest in a bodily fluid sample derived from a patient. The biosensors include a multi-array of vertically aligned platinum wires having immobilized thereon an aptamer ...